MEDIUM 5.6 Microsoft
CVE-2025-32414
In libxml2 before 2.13.8 and 2.14.x before 2.14.2, out-of-bounds memory access can occur in the Python API (Python bindings) because of an incorrect return value. This occurs in xmlPythonFileRead and xmlPythonFileReadRaw because of a difference between bytes and characters.
Microsoft Security Update 2025-Apr: In libxml2 before 2.13.8 and 2.14.x before 2.14.2, out-of-bounds memory access can occur in the Python API (Python bindings) because of an incorrect return value. This occurs in xmlPythonFileRead and xmlPythonFileReadRaw because of a difference between bytes and characters.
Affected Products
- cbl2 libxml2 2.10.4-7 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 libxml2 2.10.4-7 on CBL-Mariner 2.0
- azl3 libxml2 2.11.5-5 on Azure Linux 3.0
References
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-32414
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32414
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.6 was published on 2025-04-08 via Microsoft. Affected: cbl2 libxml2 2.10.4-7 on CBL Mariner 2.0, cbl2 libxml2 2.10.4-7 on CBL-Mariner 2.0, azl3 libxml2 2.11.5-5 on Azure Linux 3.0.
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